-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The family of Marlise Munoz has long said the pregnant Texas woman was brain dead , but now it has the medical records to confirm it , lawyers said Friday .

`` We have recently received Marlise Munoz 's medical records , and can now confirm that Mrs. Munoz is clinically brain dead , and therefore deceased under Texas law , '' attorneys Jessica Janicek and Heather King said in an e-mail .

Meanwhile , the judge in the case has recused herself from `` all remaining proceedings '' and asked that another judge be assigned , according to the order for recusal .

No reason for the recusal is cited , and Melody McDonald , a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County District Attorney 's Office , said the office learned late Wednesday afternoon that the judge had stepped down . The case was transferred to the 96th District Court in the county , according to a court order signed Friday .

`` I do not have any other details , and we will have no further comment at this time , '' she said .

Munoz 's husband , Erick , asked a court Tuesday to force a hospital to take her off a respirator , ventilator and other machines , saying her wishes should n't be disregarded just because she is pregnant .

Erick Munoz filed an emergency motion as well as a complaint against John Peter Smith Hospital , both with the same goal : to have the hospital disconnect the machines so that her family can take her body and give her a proper burial .

`` Marlise Munoz is legally dead , and to further conduct surgical procedures on a deceased body is nothing short of outrageous , '' her husband says in the motion .

Erick Munoz -- like his wife , a paramedic by training -- said previously that doctors told him his wife `` had lost all activity in her brain stem , '' and an accompanying chart stated that she was `` brain dead , '' according to his lawsuit .

The hospital referred requests for comment to the Tarrant County District Attorney 's Office , which said it will defend the medical facility against the lawsuit . It is legal counsel for John Peter Smith Hospital `` in a number of civil areas . ''

In a brief court document filed Friday , the civil defendant said simply , `` Tarrant County Hospital District d/b/a JPS Health Network generally denies , each and every , all and singular , the allegations contained in Plaintiff 's Original Petition and demands strict proof of the same . ''

At this time , no hearing has been scheduled in the case .

Hospital spokesman J.R. Labbe said last month that doctors were simply trying to obey a Texas law that says `` you can not withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment for a pregnant patient . ''

Munoz 's husband responded by saying that `` Marlise can not possibly be a pregnant patient -- Marlise is dead . '' Furthermore , he argued that her wishes -- relayed , he said , in conversations but not in writing that she not be on `` life-sustaining '' measures when she is brain dead -- should n't be treated differently from a man or other woman simply because of her pregnancy .

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Last month , Erick Munoz discussed with CNN affiliate WFAA his wife 's wishes and how their shared occupation had helped shape her views .

`` We 'd seen things out in the field . We both knew that we did n't want to be on life support , '' he said . `` We reached a point where you wish your wife 's body would just stop . ''

Lynne Machado , Marlise Munoz 's mother , said Tuesday the family is not talking about the case but said she and her husband , Ernest , agree with Erick Munoz that their daughter would want to be removed from the machines .

` Against the expressed will ' of family

As the lawsuit details , the story began at 2 a.m. on November 26 , when Erick found his wife unconscious on the kitchen floor . At the time , she was 14 weeks ' pregnant with the couple 's second child .

Soon after that , she was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital , where Erick Munoz says he was told that his wife `` was for all purposes brain dead . '' The family also says the fetus may have been deprived of oxygen .

In the lawsuit , he says subsequent measures taken at the hospital -- and , in turn , the state law used to justify them -- amount `` to nothing more than the cruel and obscene mutilation of a deceased body against the expressed will of the deceased and her family . ''

`` Marlise Munoz 's death is a horrible and tragic circumstance , but by no means should -LRB- the hospital -RRB- be entitled to continue cutting into her deceased body in front of her husband and family under the guise of ` life-sustaining ' treatment , '' the lawsuit says .

Dr. Jeffrey Ecker , director of obstetrical clinical research and quality assurance at Massachusetts General Hospital , works on complicated pregnancies and prenatal diagnosis . He says nothing scientifically in Marlise Munoz 's pregnancy is black and white .

`` A lot depends , first of all , on how long the patient here was deprived of oxygen , or otherwise compromised . We can certainly use tools like ultrasound and MRI to sometimes see where there has been injury as a result of low blood pressure or low oxygen . But just seeing that things look well is n't the same as saying that things will be well , '' he told CNN .

`` Those things ca n't perfectly predict health and outcome . And there are certainly occasions where as we look as best as we can tell , a fetus seems to be developing appropriately and meeting all its milestones , and yet after birth , after delivery , there is evidence of profound compromise , '' Ecker said .

Tom Mayo , a Southern Methodist University law professor who helped write the applicable Texas law , said he believes the hospital is misinterpreting it .

`` She 's not a patient anymore , '' he said . `` And so I do n't see how we can use a provision of the law that talks about treating or not treating a patient in a case where we really do n't have a patient . ''

The Texas law states that a `` person may not withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment under this subchapter from a pregnant patient . ''

Mayo said , `` The provision they seem to be relying on is called the pregnancy exclusion . More than 30 states have this pregnancy exclusion in their law . ... If they 're relying on that provision , I think Texas law in that respect does not compel the provision of life-sustaining treatment . ''

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CNN 's Vivian Kuo , Elizabeth Landau and Ed Lavandera contributed to this report .

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NEW : Hospital `` denies each and every '' allegation by woman 's family

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Family has said Marlise Munoz is brain dead , and medical records now prove it , lawyers say

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Munoz was 14 weeks ' pregnant when stricken , and hospital has said it must follow state law

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Family : Munoz has no life to sustain , and hospital 's treatment is `` cruel and obscene mutilation ''